Barbara Chisholm

Barbara Chisholm has led WACA TV in Ashland, Massachusetts as Executive Director after a career at the station that began on its original board of directors, continued through a decade as Operations Manager, and grew into organizational leadership overseeing major projects, facility development, expanded programming, and deeper community involvement. That path from founding board member through operations to executive director reflects the kind of institutional continuity that helps small community media centers maintain both their civic mission and their organizational memory.

WACA TV serves Ashland as a community media center in a town where the station has been a constant civic presence since its founding, and Barbara's leadership has kept that presence stable through the technological and funding changes that have challenged community media centers across Massachusetts.

She has served on the ACM Northeast Region board, connecting Ashland's local access work to the regional field and bringing the perspective of a small-town station director into the broader conversations about how community media centers sustain themselves.